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Interactive
DocsTeach

Sequencing from Seeds to Harvest

For Teachers K - 2nd
Explore the farm to table experience in a fast-paced lesson on gardening. The activity uses image sequencing to help young scholars understand the process of growing food from seed to harvest. Academics also participate in group...
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Handout
Australian National Botanic Gardens

Aboriginal Plant Use in South-Eastern Australia

For Students 9th - 12th
The Aboriginal people of Australia survived for over 40,000 years by using the plants that grow in the bush for food, medicine, tools, and utensils. Introduce young botanists to the wonders of the Outback with a 25-page packet that...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We Can Work It Out: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 7)

For Teachers 1st Standards
Listen, look, speak, and move are the routine steps of the English language development lessons found in a We Can Work It Out themed unit. Language proficiency is reinforced through picture cards, poems, and grand discussions about...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Edible and Medicinal Plants: Field Trip Guide

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Though it's designed to guide a field trip to the New York Botanical Garden, you could take resource like this one to a local park, wilderness area, school garden, or even a weedy empty lot. Middle schoolers identify plant parts and...
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PPT
Curated OER

Are Plants Useful to Man?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Here is a presentation geared toward very young learners. Each slide includes one or two sentences using simple text and related clip art to describe and illustrate one way we use plants in our everyday life. This PowerPoint provides...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Which Parts of a Plant Do We Eat?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars identify the different parts of a plant. In this biology lesson, students examine its internal parts by dissecting it. They report their findings in class.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Edible Wild Plants

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Students explore the benefits of recognizing edible wild plants.  In this wild plant lesson, students collect, make ready and eat edible plants.  Students answer questions about the plants.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Priceless Collection

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students read and discuss the background of plants, seeds, and gene banks and grow seeds on their own. In this seeds lesson plan, students also use maps to identify seed banks and research plant farmers.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What is Rice?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the agricultural process of rice farming by creating a rice stationary item.  In this farming lesson plan, 2nd graders read about rice plants and the techniques used to harvest the edible plant.  Students...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Showing Nature's Way-Plant Development and the Plant Parts We Eat

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore plant life. In this science lesson plan, students demonstrate and record the stages of plant growth and categorize food plants by identifying the edible part.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

We Eat Plant Parts

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this edible plants worksheet, students study several elements to a root, leaf, fruit, and stem of a plant. Students complete several questions and draw the different elements.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pueblo of Laguna - Spring, New Life: Planting

For Teachers K - 1st
Students name and describe three edible plants, plant corn kernels native to Laguna Pueblo (Indian Corn), care for their individual plants and compare and contrast ears of Indian corn to sweet corn.
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Activity
Texas A&M University

Texas A&m University: Plants and People Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Extensive lab has students fill out large chart of plant parts, "vegetables", with pictures with information about the scientific name, structure, and origin. Several wrap-up questions are also included to make generalizations about...
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Website
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R.j. Hodgkiss: The Succulent Page Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes and provides many links to succulent plants. Many links and pictures are provided.